Ep. 23 Krugman: You're Stupid If You Oppose Stimulus
Contra Krugman
Tom Woods
4.7 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2016
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
We couldn't pass up this column, called "On Economic Stupidity." If you want to rein in the Fed or not run deficits during a recession, you're just stupid. Here's our reply.
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| 0:00.0 | Contra Krugman, episode 23. |
| 0:05.1 | Welcome to the podcast that takes apart Paul Krugman's New York Times column. |
| 0:09.7 | Join us as Tom Woods and Bob Murphy teach economics by uncovering and dissecting the |
| 0:14.5 | arrows of Krugman. |
| 0:15.7 | Nobel Prize winner, newspaper columnist, and destroyer of nations. |
| 0:19.7 | It's time for Contra Krugman. |
| 0:23.5 | So you want to read the great treatises of Ludwig von Mezes, but you're not sure if you're ready. |
| 0:28.8 | Then the book to read is Choice by Bob Murphy, which will give you an excellent grounding in Misesian economics. |
| 0:35.6 | For a very limited time, get that book for free when you join |
| 0:39.6 | Liberty Classroom.com. Get all the details at contracrugeman.com slash 23. |
| 0:46.3 | Did you know Bob Murphy has his own financial publication? It's the Lara Murphy Report, |
| 0:52.3 | co-authored with colleague Carlos Lara. |
| 0:55.2 | Check it out at contra-crugeman.com slash L-M-R. |
| 1:00.4 | Hello and welcome to another episode of Contra-Crugman. |
| 1:03.7 | I'm Tom Woods with Bob Murphy. |
| 1:05.3 | We've got a juicy Krugman column this week. |
| 1:08.2 | It's classic Krugman in terms of the analysis and the snark, |
| 1:12.3 | because the title of the column is, on economic stupidity. How could we not take on this one? |
| 1:19.9 | Bob, this will be a blast. It will. And let us also just shed some light for our listeners, |
| 1:25.2 | though. In general, people do not pick the title of their op-ed pieces. |
| 1:31.2 | That is true. And as a matter of fact, I've been criticized sometimes for inflammatory titles. |
| 1:37.1 | But, you know, Bob, there's something about this title that's enough in keeping with Krugman's personality that I have a funny feeling |
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